Morgan Jerkins
Biography
Morgan Jerkins
Morgan Jerkins is the New York times bestselling author of THIS WILL BE MY UNDOING: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America, WANDERING IN STRANGE LANDS: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots, and CAUL BABY. She’s the former senior culture editor at ESPN’s The Undefeated and ZORA Magazine, and she’s a 2021 ASME Next Award Winner for outstanding achievement for journalists under 30 and a Forbes 30 and under 30 leader in Media.
She holds a Bachelor’s in Comparative Literature with an emphasis on late-19th-century Russian literature and post World War II Japanese literature from Princeton University and an MFA in Writing and Literature from the Bennington Writing Seminars.
Jerkins has also held teaching positions at Columbia University, Pacific University, and Leipzig University in Germany.
Morgan Jerkins
